===============================+==============+===============+=========+==============+=============== | Agricultural | Manufacturing | Arts | Other | Without Crimes. | Class. | Class. | and | Professions. | Occupation, | | | Trades. | | Vagrants, Etc. -------------------------------+--------------+---------------+---------+--------------+--------------- Thefts | 6.6 | 12.9 | 18.1 | 11.1 | 136.3 Forgery | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 8.3 Arson | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 5.2 Infanticide | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 4.1 Serious assaults | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 2.7 Homicide | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.4 Murder | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 5.8 Sexual crimes with violence | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.9 ,, ,, against children | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 5.5 -------------------------------+--------------+---------------+---------+--------------+--------------- Average of all crimes | 13.9 | 23.0 | 32.5 | 22.4 | 193.0 ===============================+==============+===============+=========+==============+=============== It follows from this table that the farming class, which, if you except vagabonds, is the class with the least means, shows the figure relatively lowest, and that the assertion of the socialists, that those who are brought to the bar of justice are almost all from the proletariat, is inaccurate. —I shall not discuss the question, whether the proletariat furnishes a disproportionately large contingent of criminals. The arguments of Professor Ferri do not seem very strong to me. “Agricultural class”, for example, is too vague a distinction. What an enormous distinction between the rich farmer and the poor day-laborer, who earns only a few francs a week! Yet both are included in the first group.—